How to Hate a Wedding and Fall in Love

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I HAVE NOT DECIDED WHO TO PAIR BELLA WITH YET! I just really wanted to say that and get your attention to that fact, because some parts in this chapter may say differently, buts that's just me covering for myself in case I want to do any other pairings.


Lucy

"So we have to go get your sister?"

"Yep, apparently her dinosaur broke down."

Leah raises a brow, so I elaborate.

"Her crappy truck."

She makes a slight "ahh" noise to show her understanding.

We both stand from our booth and start to make our way to my car.

"And she did say we have to go to the Cullen's place?"

I frown at her in annoyance. "Yes, christ what's with all the questions?"

My friend hesitates for a moment and then says, "I'm just surprised that she still wanted you to come even though I'm with you."

I furrow my brow confused as to why that would matter. "Why?"

Leah rubs the back of her neck and replies, "Our tribe and the Cullens don't really get along."

Way to elaborate Leah.

We both finally make it into the car and I start it. Then I turn to look at her in confusion. "What?"

"Yeah, we have kind of a…. feud I guess you could say."

We start to drive and I glance at her incredulously. "Feud about what? I thought they've only been here a few years."

She goes to answer and I interject again, "And what the fuck could one family do to insult a whole tribe."

Seriously there's seven of them. What could they have done to get on the bad side of over a hundred people? Maybe it's a racism thing. Leah said it's only her tribe. Maybe their rude to Native Americans or something.

Leah gives out a sigh of exasperation and answers, "It's just one of those things that's always been that way."

"Always been that way! They just moved here a few years ago."

Leah turns and glares at me annoyed. "If you'd let me finish instead of not knowing how to shut up, I could probably tell you."

She doesn't continue, so I wave at her impatiently wanting her to get to the point. "Well Princess continue."

Leah huffs at the nickname but finally says, "We have a feud with the Cullen 'family.' Not them specifically just what they… represent."

My faces scrunches up again. What the hell is she talking about? Now I'm lost. What does that even mean? What they represent. All they seem to represent to me is how to be extremely white and waspy. Maybe the racism thing isn't so far off.

"What! What does that even mean?"

"Our tribe has feuded with the Cullens for decades. The first meeting had such a big effect that we have stories about it."

My expression again changes to disbelieving. "What the hell could they have done that was so impactful? Did their ancestors give your ancestors blankets with small pox or something?"

She gives out a small growl and glares at me. "Watch it. That's not funny."

I lift one of my hands in surrender and roll my eyes. "All right, all right. Jeeze."

She can be so testy sometimes.

After a few moments she sighs, already over my rude joke and says, "They were trespassing… hunting on our land."

That's the reason for a fight that lasted decades. That's so fucking stupid. That can't be the whole story. I glance at her out of the corner of my eye and can see how her face is carefully blank. As if, if she let an expression cross her face, she knows she would give something away. Definitely more to the story. I decide to let it go for now.

"So are you the Hatfields or the McCoys?"

She groans and doesn't answer. I start to grin and continue, "The Capulets or the Montagues?"

"Oh my god, shut up."

I chuckle and change the subject.

We finally arrive at the Cullens a few minutes later, Leah starting to get more uncomfortable the closer we get to what she said is, Cullen land. Cause this wasn't dramatic or stupid enough without having to have actual borders.

I get out of the car and sigh while Leah also gets out slowly and cautiously, like she's afraid she might get attacked or something. I roll my eyes at her, but she ignores me seeming more focused on her surroundings.

"Be careful Leah, if you breathe to loudly, they may actually try to kill you."

"Your friend is right dog, watch what you're doing or you may just lose your head."

I look up startled to see Rosalie standing out front with Bella and a few other family members close behind.

Leah scowls at her. "And you're needed out here because?"

Rosalie smirks and says, "Any chance to antagonize the local mutts."

Leah growls again. She really likes to growl. Sounds pretty good too. Very animalistic.

Bella sighs and steps around Rosalie. "Let's just go."

Oh her majesty would like to leave now.

"I was waiting on you."

My sister goes to step closer but is suddenly stopped by a hand on her arm.

Edward turns to glowers at both me and Leah and then whispers something in Bella's ear causing her to glare at him. They start to argue quietly back and forth, so I ignore them and step towards Leah.

"If she doesn't hurry up, she's gonna be walking home."

Leah tilts her head to the side looking thoughtful. "Why didn't she just ask for one of them for a ride home?"

I smirk, amused at my sister's reasoning. "She used to do the same thing when we were younger. If she couldn't get home by herself she'd call me to come walk her home. This was probably just habit from when we were children."

Leah glances at the Cullens, who seem to be staring and way too interested, as if they could hear what we're saying. Maybe their reading our lips or something.

"Why couldn't she get home herself?"

"Usually it was at night. She was really afraid of the dark."

Leah blinks and then seems to be lost in thought.

I cross my arms and lean on her slightly out of laziness. She gives me an annoyed glance but then goes back to ignoring me.

I huff getting really aggravated with having to wait to do someone a favor, when I see something moving closer out of the corner of my eye.

Turning to fully see what it is, I get full view of Tanya walking stiffly towards us. As she gets closer I can see her expression seems strained and by the way the muscles in her jaw keep bouncing, I can tell she's clenching her jaw.

I roll my eyes, but don't say anything as she stops a couple feet in front of us.

Leah stiffens and straightens, stepping forward so she's slightly in front of me. I glance at her back in confusion, wondering what her problem is.

Tanya also seems to stiffen and then she says, "Lucy, it's nice to see you."

I nod, still not understanding what their problem is.

After a few seconds of them staring at each other, seeming to size each other up, Tanya finally asks, "Who's your… friend?" The last word seemed slightly strained as if she wanted to say something else, but changed her mind at the last second.

My dark haired friend steps forward again, seeming to want to intimidate, and answers before I can, "Leah," her voice gravelly and controlled.

I glance between them and mouth a silent, perplexed, "Okay," to myself.

They stand staring and I finally can't help it and say, "What the fuck is wrong with you guys?

They both jolt slightly and look towards me. Tanya starts to answer, but I stop paying attention, when I notice her hair.

The day isn't sunny, but it's definitely brighter than it has been, so her hair seems to shine more than usual. Actually everything about her seems to shine more than usual. Her hair though I just noticed, has some red in it. Not only blonde.

Does that make it strawberry blonde? I can never figure out what strawberry blonde is. Is it just orange? I don't know, very confusing.

I'm still staring at her hair lost in thought and she seems to be moving towards Leah, seeming aggressive. I guess I missed something. I ignore it and instead stay staring at her hair.

So is that blonde or strawberry blonde?

Bella comes from nowhere and steps between them holding her hands up pleadingly. She says something, but I don't listen. Apparently Bella has auburn hair. I get really confused with that one too. Is it red or brown? Looking at Bella's hair right now as she starts to glance between the three of us fearfully it looks more like brown with red streaks.

Tanya calmed down from whatever the problem was, but Leah still seems pretty pissed off. Bella steps towards her trying to calm her down and then Edward tries to stop her. Leah gives out a growl and Bella glares at him. He grudgingly backs off and then Bella says something to Leah.

I remember when we were children that Leah would always play with me and sometimes Bella. They were kinda friends, though Bella didn't really seem to pay attention to Leah much. Leah would usually get pretty upset when she ignored her.

Leah doesn't seem to be calming down and I frown. I wonder what I missed. I should really pay more attention.

"Hey remember when we were kids?"

Everyone seems to freeze and then turns to me looking incredulous. I gesture towards Leah and say, "You used to have the biggest crush on Bella. Used to follow her around like a puppy dog."

Bella glances at Leah and then seems to ignore my words and turn fully towards me. "Have you even been listening the last couple minutes?"

I cock my head slightly to the side. Did they say something that significant? "No, why did I miss something important?"

Bella looks equal parts relieved and annoyed, while Leah seems to be embarrassed and avoiding anyone's eyes. Edward look irritated with me as usual. Tanya just seems amused.

I shrug and turn to my car. "We going or not?"

Bella sighs and then follows while a still mortified Leah also goes to the car silently.

Leah gets in the back without question and Bella looks at her curiously for a moment before finally getting in the passenger seat.

I open my door and then glance back while leaning on it and ask, "Do you consider your hair blonde, or strawberry blonde?"

Tanya stares at me for a moment with raised brows and then says, "Strawberry blonde."

I thought it would have to have more red. "Hmm. Okay. Later Tanya."

She nods and smiles, seeming charmed by my question.

I then turn towards Edward and nod again. "Jackass."

He scowls and Tanya huffs out a slight laugh. I turn to her and wink and her smile widens. Then I turn and get in the car.

After starting to drive down the Cullen driveway, I finally realize that I just winked at Tanya. I am so off my game today, I miss a whole conversation and then wink at the strawberry blonde weirdo. What is the world coming to?

I turn towards Bella, both her and Leah in the back being uncomfortably silent and ask, "What did I miss?"

Bella turns and blushes, seeming uncomfortable with the question. "Just a stupid argument. Nothing important."

I shrug, not believing her, but willing to wait to interrogate her later.

The car ride back to my house is spent in uncomfortable silence.

When we finally get there Bella gets out. "Thanks for coming to get me."

I wave it off and shrug.

She starts to head towards the house and then pauses and turns back. She glances at Leah who had just got out to switch to the front seat and then seems to hesitate. My sister gives her an awkward smile and then nods. "Um… good seeing you Leah."

Leah turns to her and gives a murderous glare, and then gets in the car without a word.

Bella seeming to be relieved that Leah didn't say anything back, starts to walk up to the house, letting herself in with her key.

I turn to head back to La Push so I can drop Leah back at home.

After a few minutes of awkward silence I turn to her and ask, "So, you mad?"

The dark haired woman looks at me with a glower that could kill.


AN: Like i said before I'm still undecided so don't worry if you don't like anything to do with Bella's paring at the moment. A heads up though whoever I pair her with whether it be Edward or someone else. They will make it to the wedding day. Any non-canon Bella romance will be extremely slow burn and if I decide to go that route it will be 90% of the time Bella/Edward.

I saw that some people were worried that if it wasn't then it wouldn't be as fun since she couldn't mess with him. He's not going anywhere anytime soon no matter the pairing so don't worry about that.

Also I don't know why, but I just thought it would be kinda funny to have Lucy ignore a conversation that would have told her that everyone except Bella was a supernatural creature, and you know have her just think inane random things.

Sorry if you wanted more bloodshed, but I feel like Tanya as such an old vamp and a coven leader is pretty level headed. Unless it's Edward of course. So she would be angry, but wouldn't outright just attack someone, it would be more subtle. That's my thoughts at least.

Also sorry it took me so long to update, but I'm just about done with the story that was taking up most of time and then I can really start to focus on this.

Anyway, please tell me how I did or anything else you would like to tell me in a review. Thank you for all the kind words.